The hum of moving garbage trucks and the squawks of scavenging birds at a sprawling landfill on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa, may seem to some like an unlikely location for a massively successful renewable energy…

Dr. Linda Godfrey is the Principal Scientist and manager of South Africa’s Waste Research, Development and Innovation Roadmap Implementation Unit, which aims to improve the reduce the amount of waste the country generates…